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'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'

Networks Do 92 Climate Change Stories; Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming All 92 Times

Stories
citing experts or the latest studies promoting alarmism get covered
more than 8 times as often as critical experts and studies.

Although
many scientists say no, ABC, CBS and NBC continue to link weather
events like tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves and more to climate change
nearly one-fourth of the time. "

...

"Just since Jan. 1, 2013, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news
programs have aired 92 stories about “climate change” or “global
warming.” Not a single one of those stories mentioned the “warming plateau”
reported even by The New York Times on June 10. The Times wrote, “The
rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over
the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in
warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the
atmosphere at a record pace.” Even though the Times piece wasn't
published until June 10, a warming slowdown had been reported by foreign
media outlets in November 2012, and by The Economist online in March,
Reuters in April and BBC online in May of 2013."

...

8 Times the Alarmism

"New
reports, studies or scientists that warned of the threat of climate
change from concern over penguin populations, to predictions of sea
level rise continued to be promoted by the networks in 2013. There were
stories or news briefs warning that flying would become more turbulent
because of climate change, connecting allergies to global warming, and
others worrying about glacial melt and sea level rise.

There
were 25 networks reports that mentioned a new report or analysis or
that cited a scientist who promoted the climate alarmist viewpoint. That
was 8 times as many as the other side; there were only three stories
that cited a report or included such a scientist challenging alarmism.

The networks consulted scientists from NASA and NOAA as well as activists like Michael Oppenheimer from Princeton, who has gotten climate predictions
wrong in the past. “Nightly News” interviewed Kenneth Kunkel from
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center on May 25 who continued the hype,
saying “If we continue to increase atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we will warm the globe and that will
bring certain risks into play or increase the risks of certain types of
extremes.”

...

In spite of science, networks continue to link weather to climate

"Weather
events that did a lot of damage and claimed lives, like the recent
Oklahoma tornado and last year’s “Superstorm Sandy” were cited as
incontrovertible proof of climate change. Scientists who argued
otherwise were left out of the broadcasts. Even snowfall, wildfires and
droughts were mentioned in some reports as examples of what one reporter
called “globalweirding.”

On Jan. 8, NBC “Nightly News”
anchor Brian Williams mentioned a new report on the cost of extreme
weather saying “natural disasters caused a total of $160 billion damage
around the world in 2012 ... These new numbers coincide with a new
official look at just how hot our past year was.” Anne Thompson followed
up his introduction by linking the “year of extreme weather” to “nature
and man made climate change.”

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Observed and Expected Temperatures

Scafetta Model
This displays a forecast made by Scafetta using a simple model combining various cycles which have been observed in temperatures, together with some 'adjustment for global warming'. His forecast has the light blue background. An IPCC 2007 'projection' is shown with a green background. The bold red-then-blue line is the HadCRUT calculation of a global mean temperature, with blue line connecting the most recent results. (Source: Tallbloke's blog). A 2016 paper by Scafetta: http://www.iieta.org/sites/default/files/Journals/HTECH/IJHT.34.S2_35.pdf